A YEAR ago, if you had asked Joanne Stevenson to follow a recipe she would have been too anxious to make anything.

"If someone had handed me a recipe and told me to make something with all the ingredients, I would have just sat there frozen, wondering 'How can I do that and how much of this do I need?" she said.

Now, Ms Stevenson makes desserts almost every week as she and four others try to kee...